Misology in America Part 4 - Gender

Misology in America Part 4 - Gender
By Robert E. Reis

Misology is the hatred of objective knowledge gained by the scrupulous use of the scientific method when it contradicts the political goals, ideology or religious faith of the misologists.

Misologists dominate the discussion of public policies in several areas in the modern world.

In the United States misologists predominate in the media, the universities, the schools, and among the elected politicians and the clergy.

Part One presented evidence that misologists dominate the public discussion of the distribution of the general mental ability factor or IQ in various identifiable human genetic clusterings.

Part Two presented evidence that misologists dominate the public discussion of the health hazards of smoking tobacco.

Part Three documented the stranglehold misologists hold on the public discussion of homosexuality.

This essay will evaluate the evidence for the beliefs that mental ability is equally distributed among men and women and that male oppression is the sole explanation of the failure of women to succeed in many fields in proportion to their numbers.

The late Australian philosopher David Stove believed that the intellectual capacity of women was on the whole inferior to that of men. By “on the whole” he did not mean just “on the average”; though he did mean that much. He believed, “if you take any degree of intellectual capacity which is above average for the human race, as a whole, then a possessor of that degree of intellectual capacity is a good deal more likely to be man than a woman.” He wrote “that if there is a large number of women at a given above average level of intellectual capacity, then there is an even larger number of men at that level.”

In America, people who earn a bachelor’s degree and who want to progress to a master’s or doctor’s degree take a national standardized test called the Graduate Record Examination, the GRE.

Everyone agrees, I am sure, that physics is a field that requires more intelligence that knitting. People who want to become physicists take a specialized test.

An examination of the scores on the GRE physics test shows that 100% of the top 10th percentiles of GRE Physics test takers are males, 99.75% of the top 20th percentile of GRE Physics test takers are males. 99.5% of the top 30th percentile of GRE Physics test takers are males. 99.2% of the top 40 percentile of GRE Physics test takers are males. 98% of the top 50 percentile of GRE Physics test takers are males. This means that only 2% of the females who take the physics test score in the top 50% of scores.

The Scholastic Aptitude Test, the SAT, is one of two tests commonly taken by high school students who want to enter a university. The SAT organization reported the results by gender for college bound student from its 2004 tests.

Scores on the SAT range from 200 to 800. There is a mathematics section and a verbal section.

Ranges Math % of Males Verbal % of Males Math % of Females Verbal % of females
750-800 21,507 3.25 12,835 1.92 9,809 1.29 12,568 1.65
700-749 39,705 6.01 23,442 3.55 23,964 3.15 22,598 2.97
650-699 64,454 9.76 44,352 6.71 47,138 6.21 44,450 5.85
600-649 83,239 12.60 75,395 11.41 72,184 9.51 79,134 10.42

660270 758737

The percent of boys achieving a score in the top range for mathematics was 252% higher than the number of girls who achieved a score in the top range. The percent of boys achieving a verbal score in the top range was 116% higher than the number of girls who achieved a score in the top range.

The SAT scores were not provided within the ranges. We are not told the numbers of boys and girls who received any particular scores.

Herrnstein & Murray concluded in their famous The Bell Curve that the mean IQ is about the same for both groups, but the shapes of the respective bell curves are different. The female bell curve is more tightly grouped about the mean. When you superimpose the male and female curves, males tend to significantly outnumber females on the two extreme ends of the curve. In other words, there are more extremely smart and extremely dumb men than there are women. The farther out on the IQ curve that you go, the greater the disproportion becomes.

At has been found that for every woman with an IQ of 145 there are seven men. At the stratospheric 160 IQ level, there are thirty men for every woman.
Since 1901, women have made up four percent of the Nobel laureates in Medicine, two percent in Chemistry, and only one percent in Physics. No woman has won a Nobel in Chemistry or Physics since 1964. No woman has ever won a Nobel Prize in Economics.
A rational society would base its educational and social policies upon an accurate assessment of reality; a society dominated by misologists does the opposite.
Schools ought to be places where boys and girls would find encouragement to cultivate their talents while respecting and making sensible allowances for their individual and gender based differences.
What is the reality?
“Boyish” behavior is punished. For every girl forced to take behavior modifying “medications”, five to eight boys are drugged.
For every female student suicide, there are five boys who kill themselves.

Boy dropout of American schools two and one-half times more often than girls.

In the early 1980s. women were already getting equal numbers of bachelor’s degrees. Now, women get 135 degrees for every 100 bachelor’s degrees earned by men. In the class of 2016 there will be 162 woman graduates for each 100 men.

Throughout our history women have sought to marry men with higher income and status than themselves. Tens of thousands of American women graduates will have to seek their higher status husbands among the immigrants with H1B visas. Thousands of American young men will have to seek their lower status wives among the uneducated female immigrants flooding across our southern border.

It is a commonplace idea that Negro students need Negro teachers as role models. 70 percent of America’s secondary school teachers are women. In elementary school, the percentage of female elementary schoolteachers has risen from 82% in 1980 to 91% today. More and more, men have been banished from the classrooms.
Worldwide, the Third International Math & Science Study scores increased 7 points for each 1% increase in the percent of teachers who are men. The US ranked DEAD LAST in more 12th grade TIMSS subjects in 1995 than any other nation and the percentage of women teachers has increased since then.
During a three-month period in 1997 MetLife surveyed 1,306 students and 1,035 teachers in grades seven through twelve to investigate the question of gender equity. The MetLife study found: “Contrary to the commonly held view that boys are at an advantage over girls in school, girls appear to have an advantage over boys in terms of their future plans, teachers’ expectations, everyday experiences at school and interactions in the classroom.”

Girls are more likely than boys to see themselves as college-bound and more likely to want a good education. More boys (31 percent) than girls (19 percent) felt that teachers did not listen to what they had to say.

The Horatio Alger Association releases an annual back-to-school survey. Its survey for 1998 contrasted two groups of students: the “highly successful” (about 18 percent of American students) and the “disillusioned” (approximately 15 percent).  The successful group in the 1998 survey is 63 percent female and 37 percent male. The disillusioned students are pessimistic about their future, get low grades, and have little contact with teachers. The disillusioned group could accurately be characterized as demoralized. According to the Alger Association, nearly seven out of ten were boys.

The denial of the facts about gender differences in mental capacity may be worse than herein presented.

I have read that when David Wechsler was developing his IQ test, he found that out of 105 tests assessing skills in solving maze-puzzles, involving the most heterogeneous populations throughout the world, 99 showed an incontrovertible male superiority. It has been alleged that Wechsler resolved this type of problem by eliminating all those tests that revealed male superiority. If any reader can confirm or disconfirm this charge, please post a comment.

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